Nicko's review
The Bluest State: How Democrats Created the Massachusetts Blueprint for American Political Disaster
by Jon Keller
Nicko's review
The Bluest State: How Democrats Created the Massachusetts Blueprint for American Political Disaster by Jon Keller
Nicko's review
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The premise of this book is fundamentally flawed, it accepts as fact the media presumption that Massachusetts is a blue-Democrat state in the authentic utilization of the term. That it is not, as example I would point to the union labor system, a significant percentage of the Democrat base in this state, although union workers vote Democrat and support Democrat party policies as it relates to unions and labor issues. Outside of the union the individuals are only paper Democrats, and on almost every other issue are more ideologically in line with Republicans on most every other issue, from taxes to social conservatism. Once the Tip Oneil/Kennedy BabyBoomers are not present as a voting contigent, Massachusetts will emerge as a more purple state
